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1	[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\
2	'''First Doctor Era'''\
3	'''Season 3:''' '''1''' \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown 2]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers 3]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan 4]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre 5]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk 6]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker 7]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters 8]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages 9]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines 10]]\
4	'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E1PlanetOfGiants <<< Season 2]]''' \| '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers Season 4 >>>]]''']]-]]]
5	!Galaxy 4
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/galaxy_4_4368.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Be vewy vewy quiet. We're hunting Wills. Huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.]]]]
8	->Written by William Emms\
9	Directed by Derek Martinus\
10	'''Production code:''' T\
11	'''Air dates:''' 11 September - 2 October 1965\
12	'''Number of episodes:''' 4\
13	'''Episode titles:''' "Four Hundred Dawns", "Trap of Steel", "Air Lock", "The Exploding Planet"
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15	->''"It is easy to help others when they are so willing to help you. Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space, our ways of thought, at times, do not seem all that different. It has been an honour to know you and serve you."''
16	-->-- '''The Rills''' say goodbye.
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18	JustForFun/TheOneWith the giant talking earplugs.
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21	The TARDIS lands on a desert planet and the travellers find two crashed spaceships and their occupants; the hideous Rills (and their cute robots, nicknamed "Chumblies" by Vicki) and the beautiful female Drahvins. The two have had a space battle above the planet and crash-landed, but the planet is disintegrating.
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23	The Rills turn out to be the good guys — innocent explorers who were attacked without reason by the warlike Drahvins, mindless clones led by a tyrannical matriarch.
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25	With escape imperative and their own ship a complete write-off, the Drahvins try to force the Doctor, Vicki and Steven to help them capture the Rills' ship, but the Doctor instead powers up the Rills' ship from the TARDIS, allowing them to escape and then departs himself, leaving the Drahvins to their deaths.
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27	This story is thought to be one of the last to be junked before the episode junkings were stopped in 1978, though there's some dispute about that. All four episodes (besides about six minutes of Episode 1) were lost until 2011, [[http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/doctor-who-galaxy-4-and-the-underwater-menace-missing-episodes-found/ when Episode 3 (Air Lock) was returned to the BBC.]] Reconstructions [[note]](fan-made attempts to "recreate" missing episodes using surviving footage, [[http://www.recons.com/glossary/telesnaps.htm telesnaps]], and other sources)[[/note]] can be watched [[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1kyo2_matrixarchive_galaxy-four here.]] A slightly condensed official reconstruction consisting of all surviving footage with stills, new animations and the original soundtrack was released as an extra on the 2013 [=DVD=] release of "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs}} The Aztecs]]".
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29	Creator/PeterCapaldi brought the story quite a lot of attention when he claimed the Chumblies were his favourite villain from the show during a convention during his time as the Doctor, to the confusion of everyone present.[[note]]In fairness to those fans, maybe their confusion was because the Chumblies aren't villains.[[/note]]
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31	!!Tropes
32	* AbsoluteXenophobe: Maaga and by implication all the other upper-caste Drahvins.
33	* AceCustom: The Drahvins are so wedded to their caste system that they self-destructively only give their leader caste the good weapons.
34	* AnAesop: Don't judge a book by its cover.
35	* AmbiguouslyHuman: It is unclear whether the Drahvins are human-looking aliens or a human colony that went in a really extreme cultural direction. Maaga refers to herself and her people as "human" or "human beings" several times, but this could just be translation convention given that it's in the context of "sentient beings deserving of life".
36	* ArtefactTitle: Owing to the position of the cliffhanger being moved, the second episode "Trap of Steel" is titled after an element of the plot that doesn't appear until early in the third episode.
37	* BadBoss: Seems to be required by Drahvin law and/or custom.
38	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played with. The first indication that the Chumblies aren't as hostile as they appear is that they are [[CuteMachines super cute]], with Vicki remarking on it. Meanwhile, the Rills look downright grotesque but turn out to be quite amiable, while the Drahvins are conventionally beautiful women who turn out to be the jingoistic and genocidal antagonists of the story.
39	* BeautyIsBad: The Drahvins are the villains, while the Rills turn out to be good.
40	* BeePeople: The Drahvins are trying to make their society into this.
41	* BigBad: Maaga.
42	* BrainlessBeauty: The barely sentient Drahvin clones.
43	* CallBack: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet astral map]] makes an appearance.
44	* CloneArmy: Only Drahvin leaders are born the normal way, and the rest are cloned. Maaga is of the 'leader' caste, while the other Drahvins are clones who have been genetically modified to be almost mindless worker drones.
45	* ContinuityNod: The Doctor and Vicki refer to their trip to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum Xeros]].
46	* ContinuousDecompression: Enforced by the need to patch damage sustained by the film print of ''Air Lock''.
47	* DarkIsNotEvil: The Rill look pretty ugly (from the photo we have), but they're a PerfectPacifistPeople who desperately want the Drahvins to stop shooting at them.
48	* DumbBlonde: Most of the Drahvins, but justified (see above).
49	* EarthShatteringKaboom: The planet's fate.
50	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Drahvins can't understand self-sacrifice.
51	* ExactTimeToFailure: The Doctor is somehow able to work out the exact moment the planet will collapse.
52	* FantasticCasteSystem: The Drahvins have a caste system based on social insects, of female leaders, cloned female workers, and a few males kept solely for the female leaders to sexually reproduce.
53	* {{Flashback}}: A Rill recounts the truth about the murdered Drahvin to Vicki. The events are shown in flashback from his point of view.
54	* GenderRarityValue: We only ever meet the female Drahvins and their leader, Maaga, is initially confused when Steven asks about their men. When she does understand her response is an offhand remark that they keep as many males as they need and simply kill the rest.
55	* TheGreatRepair: Both the Rills and the Drahvins must repair their spacecraft in order to escape before the planet explodes. The Drahvins are incapable of doing so, and plan to kill the Rills and take their craft. The Rills offer to peacefully take them back into space, but peaceful co-existence isn't an option for the belligerent and warlike Drahvins.
56	* LadyLand: On the planet Drahva, women dominate the planet. A few men are kept, presumably for breeding, while the rest are killed. Oddly, Maaga doesn't immediately understand when Steven asks her if all the inhabitants of her planet are women, perhaps demonstrating how utterly insignificant and out of mind the men of Drahvin are.
57	* NoIndoorVoice: The Rill always speaks in a deep, booming voice.
58	* NeverTrustATitle: This story does not take place in Galaxy 4. The only time we get a TitleDrop is Maaga explaining that her home planet is in that sector of space.
59	* OneGenderRace: The Drahvins are a seemingly all-female race. They use the few males only for breeding. Their commanders are naturally born and their footsoldiers are clones.
60	* PigMan: Deliberately subverted: the Rills look porcine but are deeply cultured and refined.
61	* RubberForeheadAliens: The Drahvins look like blond women except with dark spotted patterns in place of eyebrows.
62	* SpaceBattle: The incident that set off the events of the story is a standoff in space between the Rill and Drahvin spacecraft where each shot the other down. It isn't shown onscreen, and it happened before the Doctor, Steven and Vicki arrive. The fight between the Drahvin and Rill spacecraft is related first by Maaga to the Doctor, and then later on by the Rills, who set the record straight.
63	* StarfishAliens: The Rills.
64	* StupidEvil: The Drahvins are determined to steal the Rills' spacecraft and leave them to die '''despite the fact that the Rills have offered to take them with them.'''
65	* SurroundedByIdiots: Justified example as Maaga has a couple of speeches lamenting the fact that her superiors forced her to crew her ship with a bunch of unintelligent, unimaginative worker caste who she rightly considers too untalented for space exploration.
66	* TelepathicSpacemen: The Rills don't speak in the conventional sense. They communicate telepathically, relaying their thoughts as speech through the Chumblies.
67	* TemptingFate: One of the first things the Doctor says is, "We may have some long-deserved, [[{{Blooper}} undeserved]] peace for once." The plot shows up less than a minute later.
68	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: In a classic example, the big twist (that the beautiful Drahvins were the villains of the piece) was given away in a BBC press release published by the ''Daily Mail''. Although in the story, Maaga acts pretty unsubtly villainous from the moment that the regular characters first meet her.
69	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Maaga executes her own badly wounded soldier, then blames it on the Rills.

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